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        Chapter&nbsp;43.&nbsp;Audio Utilities
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        <a id="mpg123" name="mpg123"></a>mpg123-1.25.13
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          Introduction to mpg123
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          The <span class="application">mpg123</span> package contains a
          console-based MP3 player. It claims to be the fastest MP3 decoder
          for Unix.
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          This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-9.1
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          Package Information
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                Download MD5 sum: 294a6c30546504ec3d0deac2b2ea22be
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                Download size: 892 KB
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                Estimated disk space required: 13 MB
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                Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU
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          mpg123 Dependencies
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          Recommended
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          href="http://jackaudio.org">JACK</a>, <a class="ulink" href=
          "http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal-releases/">OpenAL</a> and
          <a class="ulink" href="http://www.portaudio.com">PortAudio</a>
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          User Notes: <a class="ulink" href=
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          Installation of mpg123
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          Install <span class="application">mpg123</span> by running the
          following commands:
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<kbd class="command">./configure --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
make</kbd>
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          This package does not come with a test suite.
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          Now, as the <code class="systemitem">root</code> user:
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<kbd class="command">make install</kbd>
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          Contents
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              <strong class="segtitle">Installed Programs:</strong>
              <span class="segbody">mpg123, mpg123-id3dump, mpg123-strip, and
              out123</span>
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              <strong class="segtitle">Installed Libraries:</strong>
              <span class="segbody">libmpg123.so and libout123.so</span>
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              <strong class="segtitle">Installed Directory:</strong>
              <span class="segbody">/usr/lib/mpg123</span>
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            Short Descriptions
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                  <p>
                    <a id="mpg123-prog" name="mpg123-prog"></a><span class=
                    "term"><span class=
                    "command"><strong>mpg123</strong></span></span>
                  </p>
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                    is used for playing MP3 files via the console.
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                    <a id="mpg123-id3dump" name=
                    "mpg123-id3dump"></a><span class="term"><span class=
                    "command"><strong>mpg123-id3dump</strong></span></span>
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                    is a tool to dump ID3 meta data from MPEG audio files
                    using libmpg123
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                    <a id="mpg123-strip" name="mpg123-strip"></a><span class=
                    "term"><span class=
                    "command"><strong>mpg123-strip</strong></span></span>
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                    extracts only MPEG frames from a stream using libmpg123
                    (stdin to stdout)
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                    <a id="out123" name="out123"></a><span class=
                    "term"><span class=
                    "command"><strong>out123</strong></span></span>
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                    plays raw PCM audio to an output device
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                    <a id="libmpg123" name="libmpg123"></a><span class=
                    "term"><code class="filename">libmpg123.so</code></span>
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                    contains the <span class="application">mpg123</span> API
                    functions.
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                    <a id="libout123" name="libout123"></a><span class=
                    "term"><code class="filename">libout123.so</code></span>
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                    contains the <span class="application">out123</span> API
                    functions.
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